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1731WRCLIT61268Dublin: Printed by and For Samuel Fuller 1731. 1351pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library title neatly detached at gutter with old paper mends at lower blank tips and some early ink spots early ink ownership inscription on verso of title and in blank portion of A2; somewhat tanned with occasional corner creases and small marginal chips; a fair but complete copy quite amenable to conservation and binding. First edition. Not in Bradshaw. ESTC T103086. POLLARD pp. 230-1. Printed by and For Samuel Fuller unknown books
177814190London: Published by J. Watts Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross 1778. Mezzotints. Printed on laid watermarked paper. In excellent condition. Morning Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches. Plate mark: 10 x 13 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Evening Image size: 9 3/8 x 13 7/8. Plate mark: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8. Sheet size: 10 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches. This is a stunning pair of mezzotints of two hunting dogs catching their quarry by John Watts after paintings by Abraham Hondius.<br/> <br/>Watts was a successful printmaker and publisher who was active in London during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was famed for his rich mezzotints which he exhibited in London between 1766 and 1778. Watts scraped mezzotints after some of the most renowned artists of his day but he had a special penchant for works by the Dutch masters such as this handsome pair after Abraham Hondius the celebrated Dutch animal painter. These rich mezzotints are a superb example of Watts's luxurious style of engraving translating the energy and fluidity of Hondius's beautiful paintings into a dramatic example of superior mezzotint engraving.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Published by J. Watts, Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross unknown books
1762WRCAM47563Boston: S. Kneeland 1762. 228pp. Lacks half title. Dbd. Minor soiling. Very good. Sermon preached on the occasion of "the election of His Majesty's Council for said Province." Abraham Williams was the pastor of the church in Sandwich Mass. EVANS 9310. ESTC W29217. S. Kneeland unknown books
177125148Boston: Richard Draper. 1771. Half title 31 1 blank pp. Disbound. Lightly foxed. Very Good. <br/><br/> "As we are made rational and accountable creatures the care of ourselves and of our own happiness is the first natural and reasonable concern of every man. A rational self love though distinct from is not inconsistent with the more noble principles but subserves and promotes them." A footnote states that Hilliard succeeded Reverend Joseph Green who served the Barnstable church from 1725 until his death in 1770. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 12289. 664 NUC 0319346 6. Richard Draper... unknown books
17237654Vienna and Nuremberg: Georg Lehmann 1723. First printing. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. 1841953pp. Index. Title printed in red & black. Copper engraved frontispiece. Cont. vellum a bit soiled hand lettered paper spine label. Paper repairs to small wormholes on recto of frontispiece and verso of title. Cont. ownership signature at top of title. Volume 3 of 3 only. Georg Lehmann hardcover books
1718102323<p> Newspaper 16" x 22" six columns of text 4 pp. Folded at center several tears and chips at folds and extremities some loss of text Lincoln text less affected some aging and browning and some uneven darkening ; in about fair condition overall for a newspaper from this period. Dated April 17 1865 this is a relatively early account of the Lincoln assassination. Most of the coverage is on the second and third pages of the newspaper. The articles include stories on the "death bed scene" the attacks on Secretary Seward and his son the national reaction and reports on those involved in the plot. Some interesting coverage of a national event in a local newspaper.</p> books
178819834Philadelphia: Dobson 1788. 12mo. 179 1 printer's ad pp. Untrimmed partly uncut. In unusual contemporary decorated-paper wrappers front wrap detached but present. Scattered dust Good. Booth's Preface is written from Goodman's Fields March 3 1778. <br/>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 20976. Not in Jenkins. Dobson unknown books
180025051Newark: Pennington and Gould 1800. 71 1 blank pp. Pages 61-68 are misnumbered 53-60 as issued. Disbound with moderate spotting. Good.<br/><br/> One of six contemporary printings this is the only one which does not begin with the phrase 'Connecticut Republicanism.' Bishop was a Jeffersonian and outspoken anti- Federalist which made him an unusual figure in Connecticut politics. "Learning that he would give this Republican campaign speech as the Phi Beta Kappa orator the Yale Corporation withdrew Bishop's invitation. Speaking to 1500 people at a local meeting-house Bishop in rousing rhetoric denounced the state and national Federalist party for its leadership social assumptions and class prejudices. He argued that the Federalists were deluding the people in order to enslave them under a monarchy and castigated the union of church and state in Connecticut charging the clergy with preaching Federalist propaganda. The two-hour harangue ended with a call for the election of Republicans to preserve the liberty so dearly and recently won." Sheidley. <br/>Evans 36980. Felcone 18. Sheidley 132. Pennington and Gould unknown books
1800D7116Gottingen: Bandenhoef und Ruprecht 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in two spine labels gilt-stamped ornament at spine tips; 12mo 100 x 170 mm; pp. 32 624 plus 12 folded plates tipped onto stubs at rear. Boards and spine a bit scuffed; spine lettering a little faded. Except for a library stamp on title-p. text block is clean and unmarked. An excellent copy of what's become a rather uncommon text book. Kaestner 1719-1800 was a noted academic mathematician and epigrammist and a great influence on a number of his students at the Universities of Leipzig and Gottingen including Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Tobias Mayer Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Farkas Bolyai and Georg Klügel. <br/><br/> Bandenhoef und Ruprecht hardcover books
173144795Dublin: re-printed by and for Samuel Fuller 1731. Second edition "corrected" 8vo A-R4; woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces text diagrams and tables throughout; 20th-century green cloth gilt-lettered spine; ex-Northwestern National Life Ins. Co. Minneapolis with their rubber stamps; some shallow losses to front endpaper edges textblock foxed else very good and sound. An early actuarial treatise by one of the founders of the science of life-contingencies which was first published in 1725 and dedicated to the Earl of Macclesfield see DNB XIII p. 536. See Morrison 1690 for the first edition. <br/><br/> re-printed, by and for Samuel Fuller hardcover books
1787245126Albany 1787. unbound. An endorsement to an arrest warrant for the confiscation of goods belonging to Samuel Barrow -- 1 page 11.5 x 10 inches with endorsement on verso Albany New York August 5 1787 -- ordered by Revolutionary War patriot and then-Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court Richard Morris in very small part: "The people of New York - To The Sheriff of the County of Richmond - Greeting. We command you that of the Goods and Chattels Land and Tenements of the aforesaid Samuel Barrow in your Bailiwick being Debt in the sum of four-hundred and eighty pounds.for damages.have you whole monies before us at our City of Albany.Richard Morris Chief Justice." Bancker has placed his endorsement on the verso: "The within Saml. Barrows hasth Goods or Chattels in my Bailiwick whereof the Debt and damages or any part thereof can be made." It should be noted that the entire document is in the hand of and signed by: John McKesson 1734 - 1798 an Anti-Federalist New York Attorney and staunch Revolutionary War patriot who was appointed to the Provincial Convention 1775 all four Provincial Congresses 1775 - 1777 and to the First and Second Councils of Safety. He also served as clerk of the State Assembly and to the Ratifying Convention 1788 of which he is said to have participated in the hostile negotiations which eventually led to New York finally ratifying the U.S. Constitution. This document is in very good condition with heavy natural folds and coincidentally was signed by Bancker and McKesson on the very day August 5 1787 that the first draft of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights was completed.<br/><br/> American patriot and major in the American Revolution who as a representative of Richmond County Staten Island cast an important vote in the ratification of the United States Constitution by the state of New York. The final vote was 30 to 27 and the failure to ratify might may have brought down the fledgling nation. Soon after the Revolutionary War Bancker was appointed Sheriff of the County of Richmond.<br/><br/> unknown books
1787WRCAM51205Norwich 1787. 24pp. Dbd. Minor toning light foxing. Very good. In a blue cloth clamshell case gilt leather label. A rare and important Bickerstaff's almanac containing the first printing of the famous Abraham Panther Indian captivity. Titled "A Surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1787 and after making her escape she retired to a lonely Cave where she lived nine years" the captivity narrative covers pages 19-24 of the almanac. The captivity account was found to be fictional but was nonetheless popular and reprinted more than twenty times between this first appearance and 1814. Rare with only three copies reported in ESTC. EVANS 20875. DRAKE 416. TRUMBULL 1846. VAIL 767. SABIN 93891. AYER SUPPLEMENT 13. JONES CHECKLIST 608. ESTC W25617. hardcover books
171925722Amsterdam 1719. Engraving with 8 maps on one sheet. An attractive combination of text and illustration and an important record of the French perception of British holdings in the Americas. This charming plate is typical of the work that makes Chatelain's atlas one of the great works of its era.<br/> <br/>The engraved sheet here combines informative text mostly about Jamaica with small-scale but accurate maps of eight different locations: Barbadoes; New England New York; Bermuda; Jamaica; the Caribbean; the Carolinas with Virginia and Maryland; Maryland Pennsylvania and New England; south east Canada with a part of New England. This charming grouping is characteristic of the marvelous engraving work which distinguishes the Atlas Historique with maps by Chatelain and text by Nicholas Gueudeville.<br/> <br/>JCB 'Archive of Early American Images' record number 12376-2; cf. van Waning "Chatelain's Atlas Historique" in Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society Spring 2010. unknown books
17091Vienna: Christoph Lercher 1709. First edition. Fair. Johann Christoph Weigel. The date of publication is revealed from the chronosticon given on the title page completed here with bracketed letters. Johann Ulrich Megerle July 2 1644 December 1 1709 is also known as Gautentius Hilarion Hilarius von Freudberg Theophilus Mariophilus. First edition emblem book 20.5 cm x 16cm quarto; engraved allegorical frontispiece; title-page in black and red letter; vi; 404; iv 101 leaves of full-page engravings. Johann Christoph Weigel / Kupfferstechern in Nürnberg caption legends engraved or hand-written under each image. Errors of pagination: p. 188 is missing the page number; p. 192 reads as 912; p. 307 reads as 407; p. 318 reads as 218; p. 320 reads as 230; p. 374 reads as 274; p. 376 reads as 176; p. 378 reads as 278; p. 403 reads as 401.This copy is bound in contemporary quarter vellum on light-gray marbled paper boards with a hand-lettered spine. The title-page has been repaired and reinforced with heavier paper as are some of the introductory pages and plates. Plate No. 48 is printed on very heavy paper with a handwritten legend. The other plates have engraved legends. The edges of the first nine pages have been expertly reinforced. Apart from a crack in the uppermost front hinge this binding is in fair condition. Inside the back cover is a triangular stamp reading in part ZUR AUSFUR FREIGEGEBEN. Pencil annotations inside the front cover are a title index of the emblem plates and the calculus of the chronosticon.Extremely rare complete. Old repairs noted this is a good bright tight copy. Not in Praz or Landwehr. See Gerhard Dünnhaupt F5.1.; Bertsch 52a 1; Goedeke III 240 26. See also William Sallochs Catalog 365 Sept. 1980: 100 fools with their occupations preoccupations and vanities described and illustrated by Weigel. An old booksellers catalog entry pasted down on the verso of the initial blank states: In 150 Exemplaren gedruckt als Festgabe für die Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen. The last plate is blank intentionally to provoke the reader. Christoph Lercher hardcover books
1800WRCAM23273Philadelphia 1800. 80pp. bound with: ORATION DELIVERED IN WALLINGFORD ON THE 11TH OF MARCH.REBFORE THE REPUBLICANS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT AT THEIR GENERAL THANKSGIVING FOR THE ELECTION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO THE PRESIDENCY AND OF AARON BURR TO THE VICE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. New Haven. 1801. 1111pp. Modern half morocco and salmon boards. Tanned. Title-leaf of first work bit chipped along edges paper repair along gutter margin. Old stamp on titlepage of each title and a few other places. Good plus. In the first title Bishop Connecticut lawyer and able Republican orator denounces state and national Federalist leadership for its social and class prejudices. He paints a picture of the Federalists as monarchists and chastises Connecticut clergy for preaching Federalist propaganda. The second oration also denounces the Federalists pointing to contradictions between their professed principles and actions. Bishop worked hard for the election of Jefferson to the presidency in 1800. EVANS 36977. SABIN 55905595. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 199. SHEIDLEY 13250. hardcover books
180047937Philadelphia PA: Mathew Carey No. 118 High-street 1800. 8vo. 80 pp. Bound with his: Oration Delivered in Wallingford on the 11th of March 1801 Before the Republicans of the State of Connecticut at Their General Thanksgiving for the Election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency and of Aaron Burr to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America. New Haven CT: Printed by William W. Morse 1801. 8vo. 111 1 pp. Contemporary leather-backed drab paper boards some staining rubbed. Very good. Third edition of the first title first edition of the second the first work also printed in New Haven 1800; Carey also printed another issue without his address in the imprint in 1800; the second title prints Jefferson's first inaugural address. Sabin 5590 and 5595. Evans 36978 and American Imprints 199. Sowerby 3235 for the New Haven printing and 3264. <br/><br/> Mathew Carey, No. 118, High-street hardcover books
1795M3955Jena:: Fiedlerianis 1795. 1795. 232 x 197 mm. Small 4to. iv iv 46 ix pp. Foxed. Self wraps; last few gatherings loose. Ex library rubber stamp on title. Very good. Albers' dissertation on dropsy of the belly. Johann Abraham Albers studied under J. C. von Loder and Chistoph Wilhelm Hufeland 1762-1836. Hirsch I pp. 80. Not in RLIN. Fiedlerianis, 1795. paperback books
177339528Pennsylvania: Hall and Sellers 1773. 1st printing. Buff printed paper. Expected wear to paper age-toned and faint horizontal crease. Some black ink worn to red three owner's signatures to front side. Very Good. Single sheet of paper printed both sides. Engravings to both sides of the note. 3-5/8" x 2-7/8" <br/><br/> Hall and Sellers unknown books
1763WRCLIT65699London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley 1763. xxxi1 errata268pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards raised bands gilt label. Old divinity school stamp on title minor foxing but a very good copy very neatly bound. First edition. The pseudonymously published prelude to Tucker's magnum opus THE LIGHT OF NATURE PURSUED. This "1763 fragment was strongly criticized in the MONTHLY REVIEW to which Tucker provided a humorous reply MAN IN QUEST OF HIMSELF under the new pseudonym Cuthbert Comment. In 1768 again using the pseudonym Edward Search he published the first four volumes of his book; the last three volumes were posthumously published under the editorship of his daughter Judith in 1778 . Although an occasionally eccentric and digressive text THE LIGHT OF NATURE PURSUED enjoyed a high reputation from its first appearance. In the introduction to his MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 1785 William Paley emphasized his deep indebtedness to Tucker in expounding his ethical theory. Paley considered Tucker to be a very original thinker. His work was also highly praised by Sir James MacIntosh who had used his ideas in his lectures on ethics ." - DNB. Tucker's writings were also read and admired by among others Coleridge Godwin and Hazlett and the latter undertook an abridgement of the full work published in 1807. ESTC locates ten copies in North America and OCLC adds a few more but this work is uncommon in the trade. ESTC T117455. NCBEL II: 1893. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley hardcover books
179334890Newburyport: Printed by Blunt and Robinson 1793. 34 2 blanks pp with the half title. Disbound rubberstamp in blank upper corner of half title. Good.<br/><br/> A scarce Sermon. "The constitution of man is truly mysterious." <br/>Evans 25835. ESTC W15570 recording nine institutional locations as of April 2018. Printed by Blunt and Robinson unknown books
1719225955Amsterdam: Henri Abraham Chatelain 1719. unbound. very good. View. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 14 3/4" x 17".<br/><br/> Beautiful double page landscape view of a bridge bordered by eleven examples of Chinese dress from different provinces. The ethnographic studies show various types of people including physicians religious figures royalty soliders farmers and commoners from Hunan Sichuan Shanxi Huqueng Chekiang Tartary Quansi Quicheu Fokien and Nankin regions. French text describes the Xensi province bridge. A few minor creases. Full original margins.<br/><br/> Henri Abraham Chatelain unknown books
1705WN63455Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1705. Vellum binding with handwritten spine titling. Sprinkled edges. Vellum quite soiled and separating from rear board at the foreedge. Name and neat handwritten notes on preliminaries. Large work in 3 volumes with many plates and foldouts etc. Very controversial in its criticism of the Venetian Republic enough so that its French author was sent to the Bastille albeit briefly. Later Edition. Vellum. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Trade. Pierre Mortier Hardcover books
1701046917Jena: Birchner 1701. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled frontis and title page stained and detached with some chipping and old tape marks wear to first few pages a few old marks and notes but very good otherwise. Three works bound in one the first two by Hoping typically found together the last with added engraved title published in 1692 in Frankfurt Illustrated throughout endpapers with notes and a few hand sketches. The Ingeber work is a first edition. 155 7; 183 61; 180 4pp<br/><br/>Three early chiromancy volumes bound up together Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Magic Paranormal & Occult. Inventory No: 046917. Birchner hardcover books
1719007802Lugduni Batavorum : Theodorum Haak 1719. 832 pages with 83 pp.Index. Title page illustration lacking the frontispiece illustration. Bound in contemporary vellum boards age-toned back stamped and lettered in gilt. Very Good end pages toned and soiled text clean with widely scattered small spots of toning binding quite tight and sound. Text in Latin. . First Edition. Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Theodorum Haak Hardcover books
1715191132Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau 1715. Leather_bound. 315p. 8x10.25 inches text in French second edition of the second part of a two volume treatise all edges of textblock tinted red mild toning to paperstock general abrasion and wear to pressed-calf casebinding full leather over boards with five raised bands gilt titles and decorations on spine edges stained red. Bits of card show at corner-tips but the hide was well-tanned and would be responsive to restorative measures i.e. the hide could use a coat or two of archival-grade leather dressing. The Dutch Ambassador's guide to the functions of an ambassador and his recollections of his work in France England and Holland and time spent imprisoned in the Bastille. Originally published in 1682 reissued 1690 this being the third edition of 1715. Chez Pierre Marteau unknown books